John Albert Gardner

Who is John Albert Gardner?

John Albert Gardner III is an American convicted double murderer and sex offender. He confessed to the February 2009 rape and murder of 14-year-old Amber Dubois from Escondido, California. and the February 2010 rape and murder of 17-year-old Chelsea King from Poway, California, not far from Gardner's mother's home, where he lived, in the Rancho Bernardo community, after he entered a plea agreement which spared him from the death penalty. Additionally, Gardner attempted to rape Candice Moncayo of San Diego County, and had been previously incarcerated for the molestation of a 13-year-old girl. In July 2012, author Caitlin Rother wrote the book Lost Girls, about Gardner and his motivation for murdering Chelsea King and Amber Dubois.